The Sphere
General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: The D on Jan 18, 2006, 09:42:01 PM
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On christmas, my uncle gave my grandparents a used office computer he got for $100. He flew here and the computer had gotten shaken up, some things were loose. I gently pushed them back into their sockets and started it up. It didn't start.
I took it home and removed all PCI cards, and tried again. Nothing. I removed the memory chips and stuck them in one at a time. One memory stick didn't work, but the other one did and the computer started and ran.
Problem solved? Never.
I gently put the PCI cards back in, and the computer didn't start. I removed them and stuck them in one at a time, but the computer didn't work. I removed all the cards again, like I had done in the beginning, and the computer still won't work. No matter what I do, it refuses to start. I had gotten it to work a total of 3 times earlier but I cannot duplicate my results.
The computer's a P3 450mhz.
Option 1: Send it to a repair shop for $30, or more if it needs major repairs.
Option 2: Buy a much faster computer from the College for $50-$100
Option 3: Kill someone.
Either way, someone's going to have to spend money. My uncle spent $100 for something that doesn't work, and now either him or my grandparents have to spend more to get it to work!
Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. Why can't I fix this fucking thing? Who do I fucking kill to get it to work?
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I suck at fixing computers. The internet has nothing to do with this.
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The fact that you keep asking for advice in the most pathetic ways possible on this board is what makes you suck at the internet. Surely, you could have gone elsewhere if you wanted a helpful response.
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www.google.com
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bitching, bitching, bitching.
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30$ to have it fixed? Somehow I doubt that. More like 30$ an hour amirite?
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More, because most shops charge a fee just to take the job.
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Really? Why ask us? When my first computer went boom, I paid nearly $400 to get it fixed and it was a worthless piece of shit. (I just wanted my stuff off of the hard drive.) And then when Mai wasn't working, I paid like $50 to have someone over the phone tell me to wiggle a card in. What would I know about cheap, simple solutions?
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Damn... Did that $50 charge come in the form of a phone bill or was it a service charge?
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It was the fee HP charged me because I was outside of my warranty or something. The 400 dollars to fix my piece of shit, I regret doing. But I had three days worth of story on Mai that hadn't been backed up nor scripted (so I couldn't go back to any notebook or anything), so was I glad to pay it if that meant I wouldn't have to rewrite it again. Afterwards, I was told to call my uncle for computer help, which I will be doing from now on.
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HP's customer service sucks my grundel. Really, no one should ever have to call them. They keep you on hold, keep tossing you around, then have the nerve to give you a high rate-per-minute fee...
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HP's customer service sucks my grundel.
Ha ha, that shouldn't sound hot to me but for some reason it does.
I kinda like HP's stuff, when it works. And that seems difficult for them to accomplish seeing as both my computer and my 3-in-1 were both replaced shortly after I got them. I get their stuff because they're inexpensive and not as cheap-ass as e-machines. What kind of computer do you have?
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I happen to have an HP myself. They don't make bad stuff (although their low-end printers are debatable), but you always have to make sure to get an in-store warranty if you get any of it because of their lousy policies and out-sourced customer service full of know-nothings..
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http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?sk...d=1130986342454 (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7625741&type=product&productCategoryId=cat15107&id=1130986342454)
I just got this today. Holyshit I am so fucking happy.
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HP's customer service sucks my grundel. Really, no one should ever have to call them. They keep you on hold, keep tossing you around, then have the nerve to give you a high rate-per-minute fee...
omg I KNOW! last time i called them i talked with some indian dude (how strange! <_< ) that had the worst accent EVER! ( mine is like 100000 better) and it took me like 2 hours to try to explain him what was the problem and for him to "try" to fix it. after 2 hours he didn't know how to repair shit and told me it was my wireless card fault. wtf
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Thats why you should get the Geek Squad service plan. I've gotten 2 free laptops from it.
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Even though it was a hassle having them not work as they should when I bought them, my computer and 3-in-1 were both replaced promptly by HP when I had problems.
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I haven't really had any bad problems with HP that I don't see other computers and printers having. If they made perfect ones, they wouldn't make any money on extra parts. Though HP I just like because I suffer very little in the way of problems, and most of the time it is something I did. >.>;
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A lot of call center work is fieled out to inda. It's just more cost effective because there are very educated people there willing to work for a fraction of the salary they'd get here.
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According to El Presidente Bush, there's nothing wrong with that.
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I'd heard an eRumor awhile back that McDonald's was actually going to outsource some of their intercoms to India. Sounded too ludicrous to be true, but in today's world, you never know...
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Could work, especially with voip protocols, though in reality the only thing cheaper than third worlders is machines, and that's what fast food places will have next.
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I think Sonic's already started using automated ordering at some of their restaurants. It's apparently a touch-screen based system--but I have no idea what's used to make special orders (i.e. no mustard, no lettuce, etc.). You can even use credit or gift cards right on the terminal itself.
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My problem with anything you have to touch, like the car wash ticket thing or parking machines, is that I always pull up too far from them and have to lean out my window like a moron.
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Same here...
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I don't lean I just open the door.
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It's cold in Canada. I don't get out any more than I absolutely have to.
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I like the cold. I miss it so ;.;
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I"ll trade. Today I found a pile of snow where my car was last night. Upon further inspection/digging I found my car under there...
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Well what else do you expect in Canada?
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Hockey and Syrup?
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I wish...
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*flails*
I wasn't asking for advice unless someone had it. I'm more curious whether I should get the faster $50 computer or not? Or pay $30 an hour for service.
It didn't matter, I had found the problem, bad video card and modem was incompatible with the computer. But since my life is screwed up, of course something else goes wrong.
While installing a driver, Win2k got screwed up. First the computer would freeze at the login screen, then I started getting a BSOD when Win tried to load. Augh, I fucking hate this computer! And it isn't even mine!
I'd just reinstall windows IF I had the disk for it, but I don't. So I either have to spend the $30 an hour, buy a OS disk, or get the $50 computer. Either way it's going to cost me money.
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What you just said was, "I'm not asking for advice, I'm just asking for advice!"
People would be more likely to take you seriously if you whined less often.
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There are places for this kind of thing. We are not IT, Systems, or the help desk here.
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It didn't matter, I had found the problem, bad video card and modem was incompatible with the computer. But since my life is screwed up, of course something else goes wrong.
that was the encarta definition of "goth"
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You don't even have to give me tech advice, even a suggestion on what you would do in the same situation would help.
Bah, why do I bother with such tactless idiots?!
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Oh no he didn't!
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Bah, why do I bother with such tactless idiots?!
No, the real question is why do you bother posting here? Clod.
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Oh no he didn't!
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Bah, why do I bother with such tactless idiots?!
No, the real question is why do you bother posting here? Clod.
Because I have nowhere else to go! :(
I have no idea, really. There's such a thing as being assine, then there's this place. The internet is sure a place to speak one's mind, no matter how rude, or mean spirited, or just plain harsh. It's the pennicle of free speech. <_<
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Not if you don't own the website/server. Then there's limits.
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Off topic Doug, I find it ironic that you're bitching about free speech and you have "Ebaum's World must be destroyed. Death to Eric Baumn!" in your signature. By the way, you also failed to spell 'Bauman' correctly.
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Once again i have to point out that I love this board. How did D get here? How did everyone come to know Nuri anyway?
I heard tell of her at allstalk and then saw the link to this place at shwiggie's board and decided to chell it out.
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Back when the Ass-spank was cool and you could say anything you wanted in 'Beast Mayhem' (which was the POINT of Beast Mayhem, somthing a P.C. lardo who has lust for Merla has since forgotten) a small group of us were pretty regular posters.
I'm not sure what Nuri's purpose for creating her own board was (other than to avoid inane Transformers related humor, that and creating personal EZBoards back in the day was easy and trendy) but about a dozen or so of us or so began to post here. Rama, Toe, Shellspark, Firebird, Doc Evil, MPhage, Strafe and myself were among some of the original posters.
No idea how D got here to be honest, but I know Faye found us through Google, if I'm not mistaken... So anything's possible.
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Back when the Ass-spank was cool and you could say anything you wanted in 'Beast Mayhem' (which was the POINT of Beast Mayhem, somthing a P.C. lardo who has lust for Merla has since forgotten) a small group of us were pretty regular posters.
I'm not sure what Nuri's purpose for creating her own board was (other than to avoid inane Transformers related humor, that and creating personal EZBoards back in the day was easy and trendy) but about a dozen or so of us or so began to post here. Rama, Toe, Shellspark, Firebird, Doc Evil, MPhage, Strafe and myself were among some of the original posters.
No idea how D got here to be honest, but I know Faye found us through Google, if I'm not mistaken... So anything's possible.
Ah...Merla should just give old Kal a chance. LOL!
Hard to believe that there was a time when the people on the Ass-spank actually knew who I was. And yeah creating your own board was kind of a trend back in 99-00. I had Rama's Corner for awhile., which now only survies as a Forum on a Star WarsRolplaying board that I don't even go to anymore.....but they still haven't changed the name.
And I always wondered how Faye got here. Now I'm curious what she put in the search engine that made this place pop up. HA!
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Once again i have to point out that I love this board. How did D get here? How did everyone come to know Nuri anyway?
I heard tell of her at allstalk and then saw the link to this place at shwiggie's board and decided to chell it out.
hell fucking no! i got banned from that fucking Ass-spank place. (Rumble's fault!)
I told you people how I got here! I was searching for lyrics for the song - i dont remember its name- but it was the pokemon song sang by m2m(and i dont watch pokemon, i don't know how i got it) and i got this webpage on google. then i looked aorund and it was rhe time when i had my *ehem* thing for Legolas so I saw a pic of Rumble, and it has been true love since then ha!
fuck im still drunk, have class in half an hour and i have to go to the maxim party at 8pm. sucks ASS.
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The posting of lyrics was aDam's doing, so you guys should thank him for Faye.
Easy and trendy pretty much summarizes it. I just wanted my own board. And it was at the time where you just set up one and it was all ad-free and shit. It wasn't until much later that I actually used it to retreat from other boards.
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Once again i have to point out that I love this board. How did D get here? How did everyone come to know Nuri anyway?
I heard tell of her at allstalk and then saw the link to this place at shwiggie's board and decided to chell it out.
I followed Sendokan before he became too cool to exist.
<.<;
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I followed Knurph.
haw haw haw
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Everytime I'm feeling down, I just stop and thank the sweet lord that I'm not Knurph.
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I followed Knurph.
Oh, sweet sassy.... :blink:
I followed Brian Drummond. :lol:
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Hahaha...Daniel Skinner...
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I followed someone from DBZCracked, but I don't remember who.
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Majin Boo?
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Hahaha. Wow. I can't believe such an insignificant post ended up drawing such a long time poster. These strange little things that could so easily not have happened that influence out live.
Like.. if I'd never gotten into the trannie boards to help my friend witha prank despite my lack of interest in Transformers... well I would never have met my future wife!
... and M2M still rule.
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I can't think of one topic on this board that EVER stayed on-topic...
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I think I followed Tapion...or Phage. I'm unsure.
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Hahaha...Daniel Skinner...
He just walks into the barber and says "Gimmie the Shemp Howard."
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He's got the haircut, but does he have the moves!?
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Only one way to find out....quick get your Moe custom and I'll get my Larry.
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DAMN SUCKA, YOU GOT NOTHIN' ON ME!
Word.
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I think I followed Tapion...or Phage. I'm unsure.
That had to have been Phage. You were here a good 6 months before I was.
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He just walks into the barber and says "Gimmie the Shemp Howard."
:lol: !!!!!
Damn, Rama, warn a girl while she's drinking - I need a new keyboard now.
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I'm sure Knurph's demands to his barber include the words "JESUS FUCK"...
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Where is this Knurph? He should post here.
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He's dead on the inside. You could always meet him via AIM... He's always on.
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Nah...
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Pussy.
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I don't talk to any of you on AIM, why should he be so special?
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If I tell you, you'll have no reason to find out.
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I'd rather there be mysteries in the world.
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Fair enough.
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I came here back during the EZBoard days in 01 -02 or so. I saw Nuri post in a board I was a member of, said "HAY A GURL", and latched onto her like Myoga and rode on her back to here.
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Of course, if you'd known she was of Latin descent, you probably would have discriminated and would never have come here to earn our pity. Fascinating story Doug...
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Yet another reason why I regret 'coming out' on the Internet. :lol:
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Yes, but she's American born. Being American makes her slightly better, even though being called American is considered an insult in about half the world.
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Being American makes her slightly better, even though being called American is considered an insult in about half the world.
Ouch. That cut like a steak knife through the gennitals!
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Being American makes her slightly better,
:lol: I really want to defend my "people" here... but between my boracho uncles and the people that get pissy I speak English in an English speaking country, I'm not feeling it. Do I want a fucking quinceañera? Fuck no! Why are so many lower-class doing those anyway? What about paying your fucking rent, esse?
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Yet another reason why I regret 'coming out' on the Internet. :lol:
:huh: What? I guess I missed the memo. For a guy who everyone always assumed was gay I'm real slow on these things.
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Telling guys online that I'm female, I mean.
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Though I'd pretty much swing either way, but that wasn't the point....
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There's a saying on the internet...
Man until Proven Woman.
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Unless you're BlankToe...then EVERYONE is a "woman".
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There's a saying on the internet...
Man until Proven Woman.
Yeah, but in my case, I sometimes think I would've been better off not proving it.
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She's a woman, know why? She doesn't post racy pics of herself in order to garner praise to desperate, sexually frustrated males.
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Hahaha. Okay. -_-
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Yes, but she's American born. Being American makes her slightly better
Now now, that's you talking like a damn hick again. Why don't you try to go to Jerry Springer's program?
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I disagree, there's a less chance of infection.
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i don't mind latin people at all...unless they come here and take over the city I was born in, fill it with crime, corruption, disease and basically ruin what was once an American paradise.
Then If I had the mutant powers of say The Juggernaut (because it's more fun this way) I turn off all emotion and start in the hospitals killing their sick and their young...then onto the residental districts...finally the municipalities get demolished...The coast guard would be busy ferrying them home instead of trying to prevent them from getting here after about 1.5 days of my rampage...which would last a fortnight...yeah I think I could do it by then...*takes a bite of a Nutrigrain bar*
edit: Yes I know the juggernaut is not a mutant.
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i don't mind latin people at all...unless they come here and take over the city I was born in, fill it with crime, corruption, disease and basically ruin what was once an American paradise.
Then If I had the mutant powers of say The Juggernaut (because it's more fun this way) I turn off all emotion and start in the hospitals killing their sick and their young...then onto the residental districts...finally the municipalities get demolished...The coast guard would be busy ferrying them home instead of trying to prevent them from getting here after about 1.5 days of my rampage...which would last a fortnight...yeah I think I could do it by then...*takes a bite of a Nutrigrain bar*
edit: Yes I know the juggernaut is not a mutant.
Black people and Irish people were blamed for the same.
I just hate hispanic people who move here and then won't speak english.
Faye has that, at least.
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Even up north, here in Maryland, we're starting to see tons of people who don't speak any English (thanks alot for using them for work, DC) and by my estimate the school system is going to be shaken up in the next five years by these people's children who don't speak English...
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It really is a problem, and the liberals (I agree with conservatives on something!?) who promote 'language diversity' doesn't study history. All Empires fall when a large minority seperates itself.
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Yeah but the black and irish never emptied their prisons and sanitariums onto our shores.
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Because they lacked those insitutions.
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I don't think those groups intended to ruin anything. They just wanted whiskey and basketball.
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Yeah but the black and irish never emptied their prisons and sanitariums onto our shores.
haha except Fidel! He totally OWNED u guys lol aww good ol' Fidel.
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Not really. I mean, who cares about Cuba except dirty Cubans?
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Exactally. Elian Gonzoles, anyone?
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Who?
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Remember? Janet Reno had him sent back to Fantasy Island? Ring any bells?
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Not really. I mean, who cares about Cuba except dirty Cubans?
i won't even waste my time explaining this to you.
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The question was already answered.
No one.
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No i was referring to... aah fuck it.
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Remember? Janet Reno had him sent back to Fantasy Island? Ring any bells?
Who?
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Frozen Strawberries I tell you! You need the whole berries! Blend them in with your meal replacement protein packet and some skim milk. MMMMM..MMMMMM!
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I'll give you a protein packet, knave!
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Remember? Janet Reno had him sent back to Fantasy Island? Ring any bells?
Who?
Elian.
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I'll give you a protein packet, knave!
I took that the dirty way.
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You take everything the dirty way.
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True dat.
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Even the Sanchez family. He sure took them the dirty way...
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Victory is mine!
After getting a computer with a broken video card and modem, and then having the operating system die and having to spend 4 weeks looking for an OS disk...
I have a working computer!
The one thing that pisses me off though is when I tried to download the latest version of IE on a broadband connection, I got one of those stupid download installers.. when you run it, it hooks up to the server and installs the program, but on dialup it can take forever to install. Just let me download the program itself you stupid cunts!
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And what are some of these, how you say, toddler rhymes?
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Doug's whining...in rhyme form!
"'I can't fix my computer!'
Doug did complain.
And his lack of friends...
He could not explain.
"Where will I get help?
I'm so out of luck!"
"Why, I'll ask a bunch of folks
Who won't give a fuck!"
They were no help and didn't know shit.
This upset Doug and he threw a fit!
Without kiddie pr0n to download!?
He was in for quite a sit!"
Yeah, you'd buy it.
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Now do a haiku.
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Couldn't fix his comp
Doug bitched and whined on this board
Who gave a rat's ass?
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YAY! :: Calps ::
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White stain on young girl's new dress.
Doug is sent to court.
American system fails.
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Oh I like that...First Prize goes to Zero. Here is your ribbon.
And here you your participation ribbon Nuri. You know...so you don't feel like you lost....which you did....to Zero.
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役立たれる。
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Fine you don't want the Blue Ribbon I'll give it to Nuri, she won't have earned it....but it'll make her feel better.
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I hate that I lost.
Fuck your second hand ribbon.
You motherfucker.
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So.....you don't want the Blue Ribbon? I mean if Zero doesn't want it that is.
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Nuriko has lost.
Victorious, I am again.
Who came in third place?
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White stain on young girl's new dress
This was all I saw when I pulled up the thread, and I immediately thought, "Doo-dah, doo-dah", as in Camptown Races. :joe:
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HA! I LOL'D!
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I like to haiku
Too bad I was not involved
or you would be toast.
Zero's last attempt
incorporated too much
in the second line
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Still, not bad for 3:55 am.
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Early morning stuff?
Yeah, I guess that's not that bad.
Strive for excellence!
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Good assumption Squirrel.
Insomnia is to blame.
Numbers become blurs.
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Late morning are worse.
I hate meetings at 7....
I lose fights with sleep.
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Oh yes, they are bad.
Why is it necessary?
People need their sleep.
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I hate my schedule.
Naturally nocturnal.
Seven to four sucks.
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I can understand.
I work eight to five weekdays.
I thought that was bad.
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Just had my last midterm.
Didn't studied.
Did it in 10 minutes. A+.
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10? Don't blow jobs usually end after about 3 minutes? Were your teeth scraping?
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Oh don't even mention that...Just the tought makes me hurt.
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Uh-huh.
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Just had my last midterm.
Didn't studied.
Did it in 10 minutes. A+.
OK, what the fuck?
Your haiku is horrible.
It's five-seven-five.
What's funnier:
Your weak grammar and spelling!
Thought you were careful.
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I didn't even noticed
Who the fuck cares?
Omg now I noticed, the grammar was waaayy off! what a shame
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Who? I the fuck cares!
If you do it, do it right.
You should know better.
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nope.
nope.
nope.
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You are ignorant...
Yet, you revel in this state.
You are beyond help.
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I don't care.
What you say.
Cause you suck
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Chinese lunch buffet.
Where'd that kid just put his hand?
No egg rolls for me!
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I'm not sure if she
really knows what haiku is
my cock can teach her
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:lol:!! That one's the best.
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It is if we all get to watch.
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Watch out, IDE!
You don't know what she might have.
Fear dick explosion!
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Have no fear, DS.
IDE is always prepared!
Hence his rubber pants...
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Be careful young one,
Super Peru Crotch Crickets
Eat through the rubber.
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Penis instruction....
Shouldn't she not write haikus
while she is in class?
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She can't sound 'em out
when her mouth is full like that.
Spit or swallow, huh?